A pro-life billboard declaring "Abortion Hurts Women" was erected alongside one of the busiest bridges in the country this week ahead of the annual Walk for Life event.
The 20’x60’ billboard, sponsored by Walk for Life West Coast, is easily visible daily to more than 100,000 cars traveling on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The advertising board includes the phone number to a post abortion help line staffed by women who have themselves experienced abortion.
"San Francisco is a beautiful city but there is a lot of sadness beneath the surface - until recently we had more abortions than live births, and a high percentage of our population has experienced abortion," said Eva Muntean, co-chair of Walk for Life. "We need to reach those women (and men) who are hurting, and this seemed like the most effective method."
The billboard, which went up on Dec. 31, also serves as an advertisement for the upcoming and fifth annual San Francisco pro-life march on Jan. 24. Last year, the march drew 25,000 people.
Unlike in the past, the pro-life movement has reported a large number of younger participants. Pro-life organizers in San Francisco as well as in Washington, D.C., have seen a larger turnout of younger adults at their annual marches in recent years.
“As all the members of congress are recognizing, we have all of you wonderful young people [with us] today and we welcome the young people who are going to work from their schools,” said Nellie J. Gray, president of March for Life, at the 2007 Washington, D.C., event.
Walk for Life West Coast was founded in 2005 and attracted 8,000 people the first year and has grown every subsequent year. Most of the walkers are from the West coast, but participants have come from as far as Florida and New York.
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of course the truth is going to be controversial. DUH! religious people who have no spirituality shouldn't be allowed to breed.
"Controversy" is in the eye of the beholder.
What is controversy for one may be liberating truth for another in the bondage of lies.
Marketing & public relations campaigns are rife with "controversy." There is nothing unethical or immoral about being controversial.
The Gospel is the ultimate "controversy" as it divides the wheat from the chaff.
They are finding that when mothers who are thinking about having an abortion see an ultrasound of their baby many times they change their mind and don't have the abortion, so if this billboard can be used in the same way then Praise the Lord and put up some more!!
"Because it was put up there to create controversy "
Abortion is it's own controversy. It doesn't need a billboard for that.
Because it was put up there to create controversy
"I don't think the billboard was necessary... "
Why not? I've been aware of many, many women who bought the lie that it wouldn't have any effect on them yet it has devistated them. They were not prepared for the emotional issues abortion brings on. I know of a few women who do that child count in a mall and occasionally have a panic attack because "one is missing". It's the same as if one of the children had died.
Women need to be warned of the real danger of emotional damage which can and does occur as the result of abortion.
I don't think the billboard was necessary...
Boldly speaking the truth with love!
It's encouraging to read this. We'll change more hearts and minds through personal relationships than through the ballot box.